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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Reversing desertification to enhance food security.
16.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
This year’s Desertification and Drought Day theme is Food. Feed. Fiber. focusing on links betwee…
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Policy Brief: Safeguarding Food Systems in Southeast Asia Amid COVID-19
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Food security
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Health
Since it was declared a pandemic by WHO on 11 March, COVID-19 has affected nearly…
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COVID-19 offers opportunity for India’s food systems to deliver on food safety and health
16.06.20-
Health
India can reap significant public health and economic benefits from a sustained effort to combat…
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Engagement with local gender norms key for equitable, sustainable agricultural development, say experts
15.06.20-
Gender equality
A provocative new article in the journal Development In Practice uses evidence from the global c…
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Special Feature: Eyes In The Sky, Farmers Rest Insured
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Odisha, India: Paddy farmers in Odisha look to the skies with the hope that rain…
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Reshaping circular agriculture: Mountain Futures Insect Breeding Facility shaking up industries in rural China
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Environmental health
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Food security
The group shuffled into the exhibition room, eyes flitting across parasitic fungi growing out of…
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FAO publication supports achieving 2030 Agenda in Small-Scale Fisheries
15.06.20The new study, Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries: Showcasing applied practices in value cha…
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Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: Exploring new ‘double duty’ options
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Health
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Nutrition
With growing evidence linking obesity and COVID-related deaths, associations between access to healt…
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Field Notes: Bangladesh in times of COVID-19. Impacts on aquaculture and fisheries
15.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this series of blogs, experts from WorldFish’s focal countries share their personal insights on…
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MYSAP Inland supports small-scale fish farmers and fish processors during COVID-19
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the Central Dry Zone and upper regions of Myanmar, since April 2017, the Inland…
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IITA alumnus named 2020 World Food Prize Laureate!
13.06.20The World Food Prize Foundation, on 11 June, announced leading soil scientist and IITA alumnus Dr…
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Top Tanzanian officials seek ONE-CGIAR collaboration on scaling research technologies
13.06.20The Permanent Secretary (PS) at the Tanzania Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Ms Dorothy Mwaluko, ha…
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Implementing nutrition-sensitive pond polyculture in Zambia: WorldFish teams up with Peace Corps volunteers
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We sat down with Taryn Cadena and Katharine (Katie) Thomas, two young women who were…
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Low-tech tool helps fight potato late blight
12.06.20Late blight is the most destructive potato disease in the world. It affects all potato producers…
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Interview: IFPRI's Johan Swinnen on the COVID-19 pandemic, food security, and building future resilience
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Food security
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Nutrition
The following is a transcript of a World Food Program-USA (WFP-USA) Hacking Hunger podcast inter…
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Former CGIAR scientist Dr. Rattan Lal named 2020 World Food Prize Laureate
12.06.20CGIAR is pleased to congratulate CGIAR alumnus Dr. Rattan Lal on being named the 2020…
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Piloting climate-smart agriculture for climate-change adaptation in Viet Nam
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new project financed by the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safet…
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Study suggests that climate smart agriculture can boost yields, reduce hunger and emissions globally
11.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY ALEX DE PINTO AND NICOLA CENACCHI Climate change is a threat to agriculture production around…
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